<p>yea that was a stupid little passage, and it was an overly dramatic response for the second question. </p>
<p>OK, i have some questions on the sentence completions, did you guys get abate...inured for one of them?</p>
<p>and insincerity for another?? (i guessed on this one... something about her perverse views of some ladies reaction...?? lol)</p>
<p>yes, i put abate...inured for the one about the workers and the machinery.</p>
<p>For that insincerity one, i think i chose "misanthropic".</p>
<p>Why was the answer to the reclusive man question "overly dramatic"? I think it should be "trite but appreciated", it seems more balanced. Saying that someone who is offering condolences for a death in the family is overly dramatic is a bit harsh.</p>
<p>hahahahah... here we go again with these opinion questions.... The author's tone made it seems like she was mocking the guy's bad acting and that he was looking for dramatic responses... i think it was overly dramatic, which may be harsh</p>
<p>The author stated something to the extend of "theatrical displays of affection", which would be direct support for "overly dramatic" strangers who only said things to ge generous and may not have actually meant all they said.</p>
<p>any idea what 4 omit and -12-15 would be for CR?</p>
<p>Last year I missed one on math and got a 760. Expect the curve to be the same unless the test was a little harder. If it was, I predict:</p>
<p>80, 78, 74, 71</p>
<p>hey i practice a lot for the SAT and during the psat the critical reading section with the latino writer and the guy that lost his passion for the river i remember actually doing these sections before out of some psat book. Is this possible?</p>
<p>"Yeah, i said he thinks it's a gamble because he doesn't like interacting with strangers, or somthing like that."</p>
<p>So did I</p>
<p>yeah, opinion questions suck. Way too subjective.</p>
<p>I still think trite but appreciated is right, but whatever. The overly sentimental aspect of the "theatrical displays of affection" I think is captured in "trite but appreciated" by the "trite" part (shallow, superficial), and the "appreciated" balances it out so that it's not too extreme. It's kind of implied that the guy appreciates it, or else why does he go to parties just because of that (it says he usually doesn't like parties, but cites the quote as one of the few advantages).</p>
<p>I put overly sentimental because of the "theatrical displays of affection." Your argument is good though too. I doubt we'll know a correct answer untill we get our scores back. What about the the question about what "break" meant in the river passion passage. I had "telling irregularity" but changed it to "escape from confinement" at the last minute. Am I going to regret that?</p>
<p>I had overly dramatic response too.</p>
<p>same here, I put overly dramatic. I don't remember the passage exactly, but I feel the part saying "theatrical displays of affection" is a dead giveaway.</p>
<p>I think that saying the guy went to parties implies that he appreciates the statement is stretching it too far. CB says that you can find DIRECT support or implications for all the critical reading answers. There is nothing in the passage that suggests that the comment is trite, or overcommon. In fact, it had something to do with god, so I would suppose that it would be like the speech in theaters, where this one guy just preaches a sermon for him as a comment and that is way too expressive and dramatic. In addition, did you find any support that he appreciated the comment?</p>
<p>Yeah, that's what I hate about critical reading. So many different interpretations, it really isn't fair to make a standardized test out of it, because the whole point is you can't standardize something that's open to multiple interpretations.</p>
<p>ExRunner:</p>
<p>I had "telling irregularity" for the doctor question. The blush in the cheeks is an indicator that someone is getting better from an illness, so it tells the doctor that something irregular is going on.</p>
<p>what was the answer to the question on the steamboat passage we were arguing about, where the doctor's view provided an example of bla bla bla?</p>
<p>keta, I remember somewhere in the passage reads "...the man doesn't like parties because he's afraid of strangers, but one good thing about parties is that you can tell ppl anything blahblahblah.... for example, one time he revealed to someone that his wife died and then that person put a hand on his shoulder and said "[proverb]".</p>
<p>The author cites the proverb as one advantage of going to social gatherings, so I think it was appreciated.</p>
<p>I'm starting to see where you're coming from, though. "Trite" implies more overuse than superficiality. But I don't think it means that that proverb was literally used a lot, it just means that it is trite (really really common and expected) for someone to offer condolences for the loss of a wife. Who knows, though, I like your insight, but in the end, all the blame goes to the college board for putting such an ambiguous question on the PSAT.</p>
<p>I may be wrong, but I seem to recall that the answer choice was "overly sentimental", not overly dramatic.</p>
<p>If that's the case, I don't think anyone can be overly sentimental about a dead wife. Rather, the act of offering condolences can become trite and too common.</p>
<p>For the riverboat one, I put the doctor was an example of a different mindset.</p>
<p>I also put the the mindset answer for the riverboat passage!</p>
<p>For the doctor one, I also put telling irregularity b/c it talked about how a blush or ruddy cheek can show disease or something; Therefore, a blush would be something out of the norm that tells or serves to indicate the prescence of disease, which is a telling irregularity. the open rupture would have been too graphic and extreme (Sci-fi movies anyone?), and the escape from confinement did not make sense in the context of the passage.</p>
<p>I had telling irregularity, but I had something else, not different mindset. The author was presenting the same argument, but in the eyes of a doctor. So wouldn't that be the same mindset?</p>